– fought to keep bandit from harming her children
A Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, woman was shot twice and gun butted after she tried to fight off an armed bandit who had invaded her home and attacked her around 11.30 pm on Monday.
Injured and currently hospitalized is 36-year-old, Bibi Samaroo of Section ‘A’ Diamond. She is nursing two gunshot wounds; one in her breast and the other in her pelvic area, which damaged her liver, stomach and lungs. Both bullets have been removed.
Samaroo was robbed of a handbag containing $25,000 after the bandit shot her. However, she managed to pull off the bandanna the man was wearing to cover his face as he attacked her. Three bicycles along with the
